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THE DAY IN PHOTOS: August 6, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 07 12:54 AM

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Remembering Hiroshima bombing

Eugene Hoshiko, AP
Posted at Aug 06 09:18 AM

Kazumi Matsui, right, mayor of Hiroshima, and the family of the deceased bow before they place the victims list of the Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima Memorial Cenotaph at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on Thursday.  Read more »

WWII tunnel sa Bukidnon, dineklarang Provincial Historical Site

Rod Bolivar, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 05 11:13 PM

Dineklara kamakailan bilang Provincial Historical Site ng Bukidnon ang lumang man-made tunnel sa bayan ng Cabanglasan. Read more »

Japan's war memorial service to go online amid coronavirus spread

Kyodo News
Posted at Aug 04 04:26 PM

TOKYO - The government said Tuesday it will, for the first time, livestream Japan's annual memorial service that remembers the victims of World War II, on Aug. 15, as the coronavirus pandemic has forced it to hold the event on a smaller scale. Read more »

75 years on, Japan bomb survivors make final pleas for abolition

Kyoko Hasegawa, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 04 12:22 PM

As Japan marks 75 years since the devastating attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the last generation of nuclear bomb survivors are working to ensure their message lives on after them. Read more »

Taiwan to shut down 1st "comfort women" museum amid COVID-19

Kyodo News
Posted at Jul 06 09:21 PM

TAIPEI - Financial hardship is forcing Taiwan's first museum dedicated to Taiwanese "comfort women" forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels to shut down in November, the museum's owner said Monday. Read more »

Moscow celebrates Victory Day

Mikhail Voskresenskiy, Host photo agency via Reuters
Posted at Jun 24 10:15 PM

Russian sailors march during the Victory Day Parade in Red Square in Moscow, Russia on Wednesday. Read more »

S. Korea civic group vows to continue "comfort women" protest rallies

Kyodo News
Posted at May 11 04:55 PM

A South Korean advocacy group that supports "comfort women" forced to work in the Japanese military's wartime brothels, said during a press conference Monday that it will continue weekly protest rallies until the issue is finally settled with Japan. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: May 8, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 09 03:41 AM

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Berlin Marks VE Day in one-off public holiday

Fabrizio Bensch, Reuters
Posted at May 08 04:07 PM

World War Two veteran Seman Kleinmann, 94, attends a celebration to mark Victory Day and the 75th anniversary of the end of World War 2 at the Soviet War Memorial at Tiergarten Park in Berlin, Germany on Friday.  Read more »

Epidemic lockdown: little comparison for WWII survivors

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 06 06:26 PM

People in five countries -- Russia, Israel, England, France and Germany -- who survived the upheaval of the 1940s gave AFP their take on what is happening today. Read more »

Berlin's battle scars linger 75 years after Nazi defeat

Madeline Chambers, Reuters
Posted at Apr 30 08:07 PM

Germany has been forced to cancel public events to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Europe but Berliners need no ceremonies to remember their downfall - the scars of war are all around them. Read more »

Trump and Putin issue rare joint statement promoting cooperation

Jonathan Landay, Reuters
Posted at Apr 26 08:11 AM

US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin issued a rare joint statement on Saturday commemorating a 1945 World War Two link-up of US and Soviet troops on their way to defeat Nazi Germany as an example of how their countries can cooperate. Read more »

Queen Elizabeth invokes WW2 spirit: We can defeat the coronavirus

Michael Holden, Reuters
Posted at Apr 06 07:26 AM

Queen Elizabeth told the British people on Sunday that they would overcome the coronavirus outbreak if they stayed resolute in the face of lockdown and self-isolation, invoking the spirit of World War Two in an extremely rare broadcast to the nation. Read more »

Europe toll tops 30,000 as UN warns of world's worst crisis since WWII

Mariette Le Roux, Michael Mathes, Hazel Ward and Dmitry Zaks, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 01 09:42 PM

The coronavirus pandemic has claimed more than 30,000 lives in Europe alone, a global tally showed Wednesday, in what the head of the United Nations has described as humanity's worst crisis since World War II. Read more »

Coronavirus the worst global crisis since WWII, says UN chief

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 01 08:01 AM

The coronavirus pandemic is the worst global crisis since World War II, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday, expressing concern that it could trigger conflicts around the world. Read more »

Lumang bomba, nahukay sa Iloilo

Hernani Escullar Jr., ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 01 01:15 AM

Nahukay ang isang vintage bomb sa bakuran ng bahay ng isang residente sa Sitio Bacolod, Barangay Devera, Sara, Iloilo nitong Martes ng umaga.   Read more »

Pagkakaisa ng mga Pinoy, Amerikanong sundalo noong WW2, tampok sa Manila exhibit

Abner Mercado, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 03 11:36 PM

Binuksan ang "Allies for Freedom: Portraits of Filipino and American Courage in World War II" sa makasaysayang Fort Santiago, Intramuros nitong Martes. Read more »

LOOK: Fort Santiago exhibit shows portraits of World War II valor

George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 04 03:56 AM

On this day 75 years ago, the Philippine capital saw the end of the monthlong Battle of Manila, which saw one of the fiercest and most brutal fighting in the Pacific theater during World War II and left Intramuros in ruins. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: February 20, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 21 02:51 AM

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